Back at the end of 2022, around the time of the release of “Avatar: The Way of Water,” a report surfaced recommending filmmaker James Cameron handed in a nine-hour cut of “Avatar 3” to 20th Century Studios.
It was insane at the time however it continued for a couple of months on. Now a brand-new video of Cameron, talking to Temple of Geek at the Saturn Awards the other week, has actually emerged and lastly shoots down that talk.
Cameron relatively associates it to a misinterpreted quote– stating the nine-hour remark ties to the rest of the general legend rather than a single movie– it’s not one nine-hour movie however rather 3 movies of around 3 hours each:
“By the method, can I simply shoot something down today that has actually been propagated. There is no nine-hour rough cut [of Avatar 3] … I would put a shotgun in my mouth if I ever did a nine-hour rough cut. No, what I stated was its 9 hours of product, suggesting Avatar 3, Avatar 4, and Avatar 5– that’s, you understand, 3 hours a motion picture. In some way that become a nine-hour– can you picture?”
Cameron then jokes that manufacturer Jon Landau “would shoot me” with Landau, standing beside him, piping up that he “would shoot himself”. Cameron has actually formerly suggested that the 3rd movie’s shooting aspects are basically finished with simply a couple of pick-up shots to do.